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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/race-relations-prescribed-public-bodies-regulations-northern-ireland-1998/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1998/4",
  "legislation_title": "Race Relations (Prescribed Public Bodies) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/race-relations-prescribed-public-bodies-regulations-northern-ireland-1998",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations.)\nArticle 71(5) of the Race Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 (“the 1997 Order”) provides that nothing in that Order invalidates any rules restricting employment in the service of the Crown or by public bodies prescribed under that Article to persons of particular birth, nationality, descent or residence. The same paragraph provides that the 1997 Order does not render unlawful the publication, display or implementation of such rules or the publication of advertisements stating the gist of such rules. These Regulations prescribe certain public bodies under and for the purposes of Article 71(5) of the 1997 Order.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1998/4/note",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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